Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-04-13
NO. l6
NEWS IN BRIEF.


-Harvard's law department Is TO
publish law monthly.
Paris is said TO consume nearly
fifty tons of snail5 In season.
"A large ice factory is TO be put In
operation at Roanoke, Virginia.
The mayor of Dubuque, Iowa,
runs lunch counter and saloon
"A hunter in Nine Pierre, D. T.,
recently killed rabbit four feet long.
An Iona (Mich.l justice Of the
peace has begun suit for wedding
fee.
-DeloraIn. d. T., is four months
old. 1t has 100 houses, stores and
hotels.
"A Hemlock Mich. man humanely
chloroforms his hogs before he butchers
them.
Mule Head is the rame hit upon
for settlement in Charles Mix county,
Dakota.
-Asbury Park IN. j. houses have
been numbered after the Philadelphia
system.
In single ward in the city OF
Lincoln, Illinois, there are thirty-twc
widows.
-Esmeralda county, Nevada, BIO
duced about $4,000 worth of bOraI
last year.
There has not been a prisoner in
the LIE Sueur county tMInn.) jail for
three months.
Mr.. Pyron, of Chester, Illinois, has
pet crow that talks as 1uently as
traiLeo parroS.
A band of Indian squaws who
came into Bangor, d. T., recently. all
invested IN corsets.
"A POkagon Mich man found a
bears tooth In the center OF solid log
recently while chopping.
-LOnion is having revival OF 90
as-yOu-please pedestrianism, with Amer
lean pedestrians cOntesting.
"A lady in South Haven, Mich, has
parlOr ornament in the shape OF a
dead ratlesnake five feet long.
Some fish in the aquarium at st.
Petersburg, Professor Baird is quoted
as saying, are over 100 years old.
"A preacher of Larkin, Illinois, was
hned SL50 and costs for disturbing a
religious meeting of rival sect.
Lookout Mountain, the scene Of
''the battle amid the Clouds" has been
sod 10 hotel and railroad company.
AT funeral in Flint, Michigan,
the floor OF a room full Of people gave
way, throwing all present into the
cellar.
-During January fully 1000 sled
leads of bullheadS were caught on the
borders OF Beaver Dam Lake, Wis
cOnsin.
Women candida Cs bave been nom-
mated by the Prohibition party In
NewbuTg, New York, fo- school COM
miSsioneFs.
The closing service of the Rev.
Sam Jones and the Rev. Sam Small in
Boston is said to have been attended by
1900 people.
Wine (nearly 500 gallonsl that left
Jerusalem December 18th has been re-
| ceived IN Chicago, where it is 10 te used
for Passover purposes.
An explorer has started for the
North Pole from Winnipeg, He prob
ably thinks that it cannot get colder
than il Is at Winnipeg.
The police of Flushing, L. l., want
a raise in their pay, which is now $500
year for priyates. and an extra 500
per annum for the captain.
Raw ham has filed family near
South Butler, Wayne county, Y, Y,
with trIchIn9. Two deaths have oc-
CURED and others are expected.
The highest spot inhabited by
human beings is said to be the Budd-
mist eloister of Hanie. Thibet, where
q priests live at an altitude OF 5000
feet.
MIR. Thomas NJ. Davis, OF Milford.
Delaware. is the owner of an old
sleigh. HIS great-grsndfather, Mark
Davis, bought it in Philadelphia In
1779.
-TenneSsee's Senate has rejected
bill apprOpriating $500 for a monu-
ment to George Peabody, through
whose benevolence the State wa, a
great gamer.
Monster icebergs haye been en-
by many steamships tha. s::ye
crossed the Banks OF Newfoundland
turing the past week or two-unusu-
ally early for their appearance.
"A Louisville colored woman has
Tor $50, and as the little one has
,alleD into good hands there will prob
IDLY be no effort to interfere with the
bargain.
"A woman, living in Jamaica, L. /,
las just been discharged as cured
rom a neighbOring insane hospital,
liter few months treatment, though
Ter mentaltrOubles have extended over
/ period Of 20 years.
AT the Washington territory peni-
entiary the rules require that the hair
IN the right side of prisoners heads
shall be shaved off, while that on the
eft side IS allowed TO remain In It's
normal condition.
Albert Nickerson, Of Sag Harbor,
l.. l., is y years old. Every day he
sits down TO the table with his father
md mother, grandfather and grand
mother. and great-grandiather and -
-wO creat-grandmothers.
PROFITABLE ORANGE GROWING
The Savannah NetCS of a recent date
relates: An Ocala firm sent seventy
i've boxes OF oranges to Macon (Ga.)
house, and in return re-
,eived eighty-two cents in postage
stamps.
"A crowd of Prohlbitionist workers
IN Portland. Oregon, gathered In front
of saloon, and sang with great vigor
, campaign song. ATS Water, Not
Deer, we Want" until the saloon
keeper, taking their request literally.
.urned the hose on them.
"A lightning adder gave an exhib-
tion in a public place in Lansing,
Michigan, and gained great admlra-
ion by his rapid work with columns
)f figures. After he had taken upa
collection and disappeared it was dis
covered that his totals were all wrong.
Every one of the six daughters Of
grocer named Schlecht, in New York,
s sNd to have eloped IN turc. Annie,
he eldest, ran away when she was Il
ears old Amelia when she was Il